Capital Social como fator de sustentabilidade das cooperativas agroindustriais, estudo de caso

Abstract

The present work looks to make a list of the presence or absence of equity capital like resource for the sustainability de of cooperatives agricultural industries. Supposes that the gifted cooperatives of elevated level of stock of social capital have bigger sustainability than those who have a less level of social capital. The objective is to check the impact of the existence or not of equity capital in the progress of the cooperatives agribusiness COOPEMOVA and COCEDRO, for that this work used the case study of two cooperatives agricultural industries. The data were got by means of observation in the ambience of the cooperatives and of application of two questionnaires. One checked in this work that the endowed COOPEMOVA of bigger level of social capital was also the one that revealed bigger rate of satisfaction of the cooperated ones, like was of waiting; the reverse showed to the COCEDRO, with less level of social capital and of satisfaction of the cooperated ones. These results corroborated to the proposition of which the social capital is basic for the maintenance of cooperatives agricultural industries, which more in environments that lack for bigger investment and incentives of the public government so is a sector that has if shown strongly in the agricultural Brazilian exports. The simple existence of equity capital does not resolve the problems, but his targeting for the action and combined with other resources it can contribute in much to the productive and social result of the cooperatives agricultural industries, producing an economical sustainable development for the State or Region.